Flock & ALPR Cameras in Porterville, California
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Porterville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 4 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Porterville
The readers mapped around Porterville break down as 16 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Vandalia Avenue — 3 readers
- West Olive Avenue — 2 readers
- South Jaye Street — 1 reader
- North Main Street — 1 reader
- East Mulberry Avenue — 1 reader
- South Plano Street — 1 reader
- Porterville — 1 reader
- North Prospect Street — 1 reader
- South Main Street — 1 reader
- West Henderson Avenue — 1 reader
- North Westwood Street — 1 reader
- East Date Avenue — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Porterville — all on the live map above.
Porterville CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Porterville CA PD runs 12 cameras of its own, has logged 274 plate-database searches, has captured 140,224 vehicle records. Its network connects to 328 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alameda County CA SO, Albany CA PD, Alhambra CA PD, Amador County CA Sheriff's Office, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD, Angels Camp CA PD, Antioch CA PD.
Porterville in the Tulare County picture
Tulare County has 66 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,598 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 475,774 residents and 6,303 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 42.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around Porterville, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Porterville. Latest change logged Aug 21, 2026.
What’s watching Porterville
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Porterville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Porterville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Porterville
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Porterville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).